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Civic stage fright: Motivation and news satire engagement

This article explores news satire engagement and civic motivation, an area of concern in satire scholarship. Focused on what audiences ‘do’ with media, the ways in which young adults who regularly engage in news satire construct political efficacy is studied. Using a qualitative contextualising audience study, including in-depth interviews and focus groups with 31 young adults, a thematic analysis

Diatom-rich sediment formation in lakes

Unicellular photosynthetic golden algae called diatoms are one of the most abundant silicifying organisms. Diatoms take up silicon and build their frustules, in the form of biogenic silica (BSi), which have high preservation potential, and thus are found in sediments. Around 27 % of the annual dissolved silicon (DSi) delivery from the land to the ocean is retained in lakes and reservoirs in the fo

The Sveconorwegian orogeny

This article reviews the geology of the Sveconorwegian orogen in south Scandinavia and existing tectonic models for the Mesoproterozoic to Neoproterozoic Sveconorwegian orogeny. It proposes an updated geodynamic scenario of large, hot, long-duration continental collision starting at c. 1065 Ma between proto-Baltica and another plate, presumably Amazonia, in a Rodinia-forming context. An orogenic p

Probing new physics with multi-vacua quantum tunnelings beyond standard model through gravitational waves

We report on a novel phenomenon of particle cosmology, which features specific cosmological phase transitions via quantum tunnelings through multiple vacua. The latter is inspired by the axiverse ideas, and enables to probe the associated new physics models through a potential observation of specific patterns in the stochastic gravitational waves background. Multiple vacua may induce the nucleatio

Androgen deprivation therapy and side effects : Are GnRH antagonists safer?

Androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) with gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) agonists and antagonists is the mainstay of advanced prostate cancer treatment. Both drug classes decrease levels of luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormones (FSH), thereby lowering testosterone to castrate levels. This is associated with adverse events (AEs), including cardiovascular (CV) disorders, bone fr

The Dynamics of Heparin-Binding Protein in Cardiothoracic Surgery—A Pilot Study

Objectives: To explore the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative dynamics of heparin-binding protein (HBP) in cardiothoracic surgery. Design: This was a prospective, observational study. Setting: The study was conducted at a single university hospital. Participants: Thirty patients undergoing cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) were included, 15 of whom underwent coronary a

Dissecting the Effects of Selection and Mutation on Genetic Diversity in Three Wood White (Leptidea) Butterfly Species

The relative role of natural selection and genetic drift in evolution is a major topic of debate in evolutionary biology. Most knowledge spring from a small group of organisms and originate from before it was possible to generate genome-wide data on genetic variation. Hence, it is necessary to extend to a larger number of taxonomic groups, descriptive and hypothesis-based research aiming at unders

Lack of gene flow : Narrow and dispersed differentiation islands in a triplet of Leptidea butterfly species

Genome scans in recently separated species can inform on molecular mechanisms and evolutionary processes driving divergence. Large-scale polymorphism data from multiple species pairs are also key to investigate the repeatability of divergence-whether radiations tend to show parallel responses to similar selection pressures and/or underlying molecular forces. Here, we used whole-genome resequencing

Monasticism in the Oriental Orthodox Churches

The Christian monastic tradition has its origins in the Middle East. It has been and remains a constitutive institution in the Oriental Orthodox Churches, which are the Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syrian Orthodox Churches. In Armenia, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Syriac-speaking Christian traditions, the monasteries have been the most important educational institutions in which language and liter

Becoming World Class : What It Means and What It Does

On the basis of a critical survey of university strategies, it is argued that universities reify and objectify “world class” and turn it into absolute and precisely defined goals (location in ranking hierarchies, publication patterns, number of start-ups and licens-es, etc.) and that this in turn is based on a skewed reading of the ascendancy of some universities (notably leading US higher educati

Modellering av betongkonstruktioner skadade av alkalikiselreaktioner

En betongkonstruktion som skadas av alkalikiselreaktioner spricker, förlorar sin hållfasthet, och blir utsatt för andra typer av nedbrytningsprocesser som frostangrepp och urlakning. Syftet med denna sammanställning är att vägleda och sprida kunskap om olika materialmodeller som kan användas för analys av utveckling av skador som orsakas av alkalikiselreaktioner i betongkonstruktioner. Kunskapen k

Mönster i grönt : Graham Greene och 1900-talslitteraturens villkor

Mönster i grönt undersöker sambanden mellan receptionen av Graham Greenes verk och 1900-talslitteraturens villkor, med särskilt hänseende till genremässiga och mediala hierarkier på den internationella bokmarknaden. Studien visar att komplexiteten i Greenes litteraturhistoriska position – där omfattningen och den internationella spridningen av hans verk lett till ett slags frikoppling från enskild

Cytotoxicity induced by mixtures of adenovirus and specific antibodies - Induction of cytotoxic aggregates by homotypic anti-fibre sera and neutralization of the cytotoxicity by homotypic anti-hexon sera

Aggregates cytotoxie for human cells in vitro were produced when adenovirus type 5 was mixed with homotypic rabbit antiserum against whole virus particles at a certain restricted virus-antibody ratio. The same degree of cytotoxicity was obtained with mixtures of the virus and an antiserum against purified fibres of adenovirus type 5 at a certain proportion. The cytotoxicity could be neutralized by

Inhibitory effects of BCG on adenovirus tumorigenesis : Dependence on administration schedule

The cumulative incidence of tumours was registered in CBA mice inoculated with adenovirus type 12 when newborn and treated with BCG in different ways during the latency period. A single subcutaneous dose of BCG at 3–4 weeks of age had a preventive effect, while no prevention could be recorded after a single BCG dose at 9 weeks of age or eight BCG injections at intervals of 1 week. Sera obtained du

Demonstration And Identification Of Cytotoxic Antibodies And Antibodies Blocking The Cell-Mediated Antitumor Immunity Against Adenovirus Type 12 Induced Tumors

Hyperimmune mouse antisera against syngeneic adenovirus type 12 induced tumors and their 7 S and 19 S fractions of immunoglobulins obtained after combined diethylaminoethyl cellulose and Sephadex G-200 separation were tested against a rat adenovirus type 12 induced tumor by 51 Cr release technique. The same sera and their fractions were investigated with the colony inhibition technique for ability